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The Psychedelic Experience
The Psychedelic Experience
Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.
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4.1
Empire
Empire
A single static wide shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
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5.5
Free Fall
Free Fall
An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our ...
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The Punched Tape of Life
The Punched Tape of Life
Shot at the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of Helsinki, the images of The Punched Tape of Life illustrate the beauty of 1960s information technology. These decorative ...
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5.4
Zen for Film
Zen for Film
In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of ...
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Electronics in the World of Tomorrow
Electronics in the World of Tomorrow
Erkki Kurenniemi was arguably one of the first artists to propose or fantasise about a complete cultural surrender to cyber existence, and his entire career, covering such diverse ...
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Fluids
Fluids
16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract. Opticals, repetitions, camera moves and ...
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Adams Film
Adams Film
Adams Film is a visual collage combining live action footage with abstract images and textures drawn onto 16mm film stock. Footage of a casual Janiak family gathering is sandwiched ...
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5.7
Sun in Your Head
Sun in Your Head
"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at ...
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Montage V: How to Play Pinball
Montage V: How to Play Pinball
Vibrant, bursting with color (shot in the late, and much lamented Kodachrome) and ringing with bells and whistles, Wayne Sourbeer’s ode to the joys of the lowly pinball machine is a ...
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Ferrum
Ferrum
Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a documentary and symbolic work.
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4.6
Flaming Creatures
Flaming Creatures
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of ...
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5.6
Mothlight
Mothlight
Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the ...
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7
Magueyes
Magueyes
Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.
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6.2
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Prelude: Dog Star Man
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and ...
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Rice Bowl
Rice Bowl
Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the more resonant accomplishments of the ...
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7.7
Drums West
Drums West
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. ...
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7
Shearing Animation
Shearing Animation
An abstract animated film inspired by the work of jazz musician Chico Hamilton.
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Disintegration Line #1
Disintegration Line #1
A direct animation film featuring black and white full frame motion as opalescent as the dancing night sky. The abstract animation field textures subtly depict the infinitesimal nuclei ...
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Faces and Fortunes
Faces and Fortunes
This sponsored film from Chicago’s Goldsholl Design & Film Associates captures the lively world of pre-1960s advertising through animation and collage techniques. As a filmic treatise ...
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High Voltage
High Voltage
High Voltage is constructed from footage James Whitney contributed to Belson for use in one of his Vortex concerts.
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Somnambulists
Somnambulists
In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film ...